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Suspected Russian NRA operative reportedly ready to spill the beans in exchange for plea deal Earlier this summer, Russian citizen Maria Butina was arrested by the United States Government and charged with being a Russian intelligence asset working to influence American politics. Butina was the head of a small Russian version of the NRA called...	Walter Einenkel	11/16/2018	119	213	-	-
Amazon HQ2 destroys plan to build 1,500 affordable housing units in New York City Blowback has been fierce ever since the announcement that online mega-giant retailer Amazon would be receiving billions of dollars in subsidies to build one of two new headquarters in Long Island City, New York. Besides questions surrounding the...	Walter Einenkel	11/16/2018	80	71	-	-
GOP’s top law enforcement leadership picks are knee-deep in their own criminal/civil legal battles Indiana’s Republican attorney general, Curtis Hill, has been elected vice chair of the national Republican Attorneys General Association. This comes about three weeks after the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would not...	Walter Einenkel	11/16/2018	9	26	-	-
Conservative writer gets ass handed to him after tweeting creepy image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez UPDATED with image of the original tweet that Eddie Scarry has since taken down. A conservative news writer is getting a lot of well-deserved blowback after posting an image of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, taken from behind as she walked down a...	Walter Einenkel	11/15/2018	202	165	-	-
DeVos’ new policies for investigations will allow campus assaulters to cross-examine survivors At the beginning of September, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision in the case of Doe v. Baum, et al. , in which a University of Michigan student accused of rape said his rights had been violated by the school...	Walter Einenkel	11/15/2018	64	36	-	-
A historic 2,000+ women will be in office this coming year—almost entirely from one political party When conservatives scoff at the progressive slogan “The Future is Female,” they are usually responding to the insecurity that comes with knowing, deep down inside, you are in the wrong. The strides that women, people of color, and the LGBT community...	Walter Einenkel	11/15/2018	42	122	-	-
Taxpayers spent around $100,000 to send Trump Jr. to India to make Trump $100 million Donald Trump Jr. is the watered-down version of Donald Trump, who is the watered-down version of a cartoon billionaire. According to the Washington Post, Junior is bopping about, handling the corrupt job of managing the Trump family business. Recently,...	Walter Einenkel	11/15/2018	39	82	-	-
Report says NRA is hurting so bad, it can’t even give employees free coffee and water anymore The non-profit news site Trace, an organization that focuses on gun control and gun safety news, reports that NRA officials have begun implementing an “austerity campaign,” spearheaded by executive director for general operations Josh Powell. The news...	Walter Einenkel	11/15/2018	287	283	-	-
In the most hypocritical move, Trump's interior secretary moves to block drilling in his home state Trump’s secretary of the interior, Montana Republican Ryan Zinke, has decided to ingratiate himself with his state’s voters by hypocritically immunizing them from his actions as a shill for big industry and an environmental nightmare. The Great Falls...	Walter Einenkel	11/14/2018	11	28	-	-
Watch Trump presidential campaign adviser treated the way all Trump surrogates should be treated Traditional media outlets frequently have on Trump surrogates, apologists, spokespersons, bullshit artists—whatever you want to call them—to give the party line their side of the issues of the day. Progressive news sites like Daily Kos criticize these...	Walter Einenkel	11/14/2018	94	292	-	-
It’s official! Architect of Obamacare repeal swept away by blue wave It’s official! Democrat Andy Kim has turned New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District blue, unseating the architect of the Obamacare repeal, Tom MacArthur. Kim had declared victory last Wednesday, after thousands of mailed-in ballots swung the election...	Walter Einenkel	11/14/2018	104	248	-	-
As deregulation and tax breaks kick in, big telecoms’ promised infrastructure work slows down When Republican telecom shill Ajit Pai became the head of the FCC, he began lying about the need to free big telecom business from the chains of net neutrality regulations in order to encourage their investment in infrastructure such as wireless. Pai...	Walter Einenkel	11/14/2018	22	32	-	-
Google donates $5,000 to racist Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith just days after her 'lynching' joke When Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith “joked” that she liked Republican Gov. Phil Bryant so much that "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row," most people wondered what exactly the joke was. Campaigning for a runoff...	Walter Einenkel	11/14/2018	160	178	-	-
AT&T CEO suddenly a huge proponent of federal net neutrality law after California laws pass AT&T, the Republican-led FCC, and telecoms everywhere are in the midst of litigating a variety of net neutrality fights from coast to coast. One of the more publicized and perfectly karmic is the battle around California’s considerably stricter net...	Walter Einenkel	11/13/2018	26	40	-	-
Meteorologist hoses down Trump's claims on the historic California wildfires Donald Trump is an incompetent person. He’s a dumb man. He’s a racist dumb incompetent man. While the wildfires in California continued to rage over the weekend, “President” Trump decided that the smart thing to do was not offer help, was not send some...	Walter Einenkel	11/13/2018	22	47	-	-
One year later, an analysis of the U.S. economy shows just how destructive the GOP tax scam was The reason that Ronald Reagan’s support of trickle-down economics was so frustrating to most Americans was that it was so obviously a money-grab ploy by the wealthiest entities and individuals in our country. George Bush Sr. gave it the name “voodoo...	Walter Einenkel	11/13/2018	155	368	-	-
Medical professionals share images of gun violence, slam NRA's Stay in Your Lane nonsense One of the most indefensible stances of the NRA—in a sea of indefensible stances—is that medical professionals and government public health experts cannot use taxpayer money to research gun violence in our country. After a few hundred American deaths...	Walter Einenkel	11/13/2018	176	412	-	-
Jury awards $25.5 million in highest-ever 'bad faith' case against Aetna health insurance A jury in Oklahoma awarded the Cunningham family $25.5 million after a four-year court battle with insurance giant Aetna. Orranna Cunningham began the lawsuit, and her husband Ron finished it. Orranna’s doctor prescribed her stage 4 cancer treatment in...	Walter Einenkel	11/12/2018	48	142	-	-
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had nowhere to live for her new job, so Chef José Andrés stepped up A very specific part of a New York Times profile of newly elected New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went viral today. In it she talked about the logistical anxiety of not having a salary for three months and trying to figure out exactly how to...	Walter Einenkel	11/09/2018	309	641	-	-
VA Secretary announces plan to reauthorize medical experiments on man's best friend Like a silent-film villain twisting his mustache, the Trump administration continues to do things once thought comically archaic. Earlier it was forcing out programs connecting veterans with service dogs. Now it’s rubber-stamping morally and ethically...	Walter Einenkel	11/09/2018	80	73	-	-
[Update] Democrats have proposed funding national teacher raises by taxing the rich In May, soon-to-be (possibly) officially speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer came with other leading Democrats to propose what I am guessing is a very popular idea: reversing the unpopular and corrupt Republican tax cuts for...	Walter Einenkel	11/09/2018	62	82	-	-
Congresswoman-elect Ocasio-Cortez can’t afford to move to D.C. until her first paycheck The New York Times published a profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wednesday, the day after the midterm elections. In it, the 29-year-old former bartender and newly elected representative explained that moving from the expensive city of New York to the...	Walter Einenkel	11/09/2018	61	44	-	-
Comedian uses Twitter to highlight the Trump administration's godawfulness in a powerful way Laurie Kilmartin is a standup comedian and writer who has been around for some time. She’s written for Conan O’Brien. She also has a fun presence on Twitter. For some time she’s taken to tweeting out very real news reports using “President Hillary...	Walter Einenkel	11/09/2018	12	39	-	-
Author explains science behind cult behavior, applies it to Trump supporters On Wednesday, CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta got into a heated exchange with white supremacist in chief Donald Trump. During that exchange, one of the low-level complicit supremacists attempted to grab Acosta’s microphone out of his hand...	Walter Einenkel	11/08/2018	172	327	-	-
Stephen Colbert says goodbye to Jeff Sessions by eating him on live TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert took on the news that Donald Trump had fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday. After covering that Sessions’ resignation letter implied that he was fired, Colbert reminded the audience that this was not a...	Walter Einenkel	11/08/2018	70	159	-	-
Architect of Obamacare repeal just got his comeuppance as his New Jersey seat gets flipped to blue When Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur took on the responsibility of creating the amendment that allowed Trumpcare to push through, he thought that pretending he was a bipartisan type of guy would immunize him from his own betrayed constituents. He was...	Walter Einenkel	11/07/2018	30	88	-	-
That time Lindsey Graham promised there would be ‘holy hell to pay’ if Trump fired Sessions It was the summer of 2017. Donald Trump was getting really bent out of shape because Robert Mueller’s special investigation into foreign meddling in our elections was well underway, and the news leaking out did not show Donald Trump in a good light. ...	Walter Einenkel	11/07/2018	186	150	-	-
One of election night’s greatest treats was watching Ann Coulter get owned by the internet After the news spread that one of the world’s worst racists, Kris Kobach, had lost his bid to ruin Kansas, most sentient life across the country cheered with joy. But not the completely irrelevant, except as a punchline, Ann Coulter. She was furious. ...	Walter Einenkel	11/07/2018	167	342	-	-
Trump escalates ‘enemy of the people’ attacks in unhinged exchange with CNN reporter So, just a short while ago, Donald Trump—during one of his very infrequent press conferences—got into a bizarre exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta. Acosta was asking Trump about the idiotic fear-mongering he promoted about the migrant caravan. Trump...	Walter Einenkel	11/07/2018	153	116	-	-
Nevada may have the United States' first female-majority Legislature Democrats won big last night. History was made across the country as women of color and LGBT people broke through what were once thought insurmountable obstacles to unseat the old hegemony in states and localities. According to the Nevada...	Walter Einenkel	11/07/2018	2	10	-	-
Minnesota Republican, who pined for the days when women could be called 'sluts,' loses to woman The shock jock Republican rep. from Minnesota’s second district has lost his seat to Democrat Angie Craig. Jason Lewis, best known for lamenting that calling women “sluts” is frowned upon now, tried some pathetic last minute shenanigans by...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	130	179	-	-
Democrats will win the popular vote across the country in record-setting fashion By the end of the night, and over the next few days, the Democratic Party will have retaken the majority position in the House of Representatives. But it is important to remember that they have done so by fighting uphill battles against...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	19	31	-	-
Meet Minnesota's newest history maker, U.S. House Rep. Ilhan Omar It was almost two years ago to the day that Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar as the first Somali-Muslim state representative in the history of our country. Today, state representative Omar became United States Rep. Ilhan Omar. Alongside Michigan’s Rashida...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	24	85	-	-
Ding dong the witch is dead: Kim Davis loses her reelection bid to Democrat Nightmare come to life Kim Davis has lost her reelection attempt for the Rowan County clerkship. The Republican made famous when she refused to do her job because she is a complete failure of a human being, lost to Democrat Elwood Caudill Kr. This...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	155	183	-	-
One of the NRA’s top-funded Republicans just went down hard in Virginia in first big House flip Democrat Jennifer Wexton has unseated Rep. Barbara Comstock. Rep. Wexton promoted more serious gun safety, while Barbara Comstock continued to be one of the top ten NRA-funded House officials. Comstock’s refusal to do anything about gun...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	34	145	-	-
Indianapolis voters arrive to find one volunteer and unplugged voting machines There are going to be reports all day of issues with voting. Some will be more egregious than others, some will be more insidious. ProPublica reports that Indianapolis voters lined up this morning only to find themselves overwhelming the single...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	112	192	-	-
Republican releases ad of him ‘canvassing’ in the wrong district, says his opponent is fake Former shock jock-turned-Minnesota Republican Rep. Jason Lewis is running against Democrat Angie Craig. Lewis is best known for his years spent lamenting that we cannot call women “sluts” anymore and regurgitating the age-old racist canard that black...	Walter Einenkel	11/06/2018	28	105	-	-
One woman fleeced MAGA fanatics of over $150k—with her phone and their racism [UPDATED] How do you get money out of people? The traditional con artist knows that there are two things one must do: find out what people desire and offer it to them, and have confidence in your approach. A young woman, using the Twitter handle @chckpeas,...	Walter Einenkel	11/05/2018	156	248	-	-
Get Out the Vote messaging floods Twitter in the final hours before the election If you haven’t heard, tomorrow is Election Day! Get out and vote! If you’re reading Daily Kos, you may have already taken advantage of early voting, but getting out there and reminding people to vote is the most important thing you can do today and...	Walter Einenkel	11/05/2018	40	67	-	-
Two times in the past year, Rep. Steve King promoted anti-Semitic, racist 'news' website Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is probably a white supremacist. Maybe he would rather be called a white “nationalist,” but it is six of one, half a dozen of the other, in my opinion. The election coming up for King has been a considerably tougher one than one...	Walter Einenkel	11/02/2018	12	53	-	-
Students demanding action on gun laws release moving video reminding everyone why we must vote Everytown for Gun Safety is a movement to end the unacceptable gun violence that affects millions of children every year in the United States. A new video campaign by the organization, using pop music star Sia’s “I’m Still Here,” was released last...	Walter Einenkel	11/02/2018	70	267	-	-
Desperate for votes, lyin’ Ted Cruz sinks to a dangerous new low Ted Cruz will go down in history as one of the most two-dimensionally corrupt and narcissistic people in the story of America. His every move, regardless of the consequences to anybody else not named Ted Cruz, are transparently self-serving and craven....	Walter Einenkel	11/02/2018	114	132	-	-
Researcher: Twice as many children die from firearms in states with lenient gun laws The second-highest cause of pediatric death in the United States is firearms. More children die from them every year than die from cancer and heart disease combined. According to new research, even when adjusting for factors like poverty, unemployment,...	Walter Einenkel	11/02/2018	13	76	-	-
New York Republican profits from predatory medical-debt collection while trying to repeal the ACA Tracy Mitrano is a Democrat running on a “Medicare for all” platform in the hope of unseating the seemingly (and kind of obviously) corrupt Republican Rep. Tom Reed (NY-23). Reed is running a platform of “Let’s call Tracy Mitrano a communist and hope...	Walter Einenkel	11/01/2018	7	32	-	-
White supremacist-loving Iowa Republican lashes out when asked about loving white supremacists At a candidate forum sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Partnership, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) stood in front of a small group of people to take questions. A young man quoted from the final statement posted on Gab by the terrorist Robert Bowers, the man...	Walter Einenkel	11/01/2018	29	50	-	-
Jewish doctor treats Pittsburgh shooter: 'My job isn't to judge him...my job is to take care of him' When 46-year-old Robert Bowers rushed into the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue and killed 11 people, wounding six others—including four police officers—he was taken into custody badly hurt. Authorities brought him to Allegheny General Hospital,...	Walter Einenkel	11/01/2018	19	31	-	-
Republican coward dodges questions about his investment in website used by Pittsburgh shooter Gab is an “alternative” social media site that promises unfettered “free speech,” and while it says that calls to violence are prohibited, the site has been filled with the kind of hate speech that seems to have fueled (and was posted by) suspected...	Walter Einenkel	11/01/2018	32	100	-	-
Remember how gifting telecoms $2 billion would speed up infrastructure build-out? About that ... You may have missed it, but a couple of weeks ago the FCC Verizon shill Ajit Pai and his Republican cronies voted to steal away an estimated $2 billion from municipalities and states by limiting the amount they could charge telecom companies, like...	Walter Einenkel	10/31/2018	6	39	-	-
Man who refurbished Tennessee's electric chair worries it will not work correctly today After appeals and protests have failed to get Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee to commute the death penalty sentence of Edmund Zagorski, Zagorski is set to be killed by electrocution Thursday, November 1, 2018. This also follows a ruling by U.S....	Walter Einenkel	10/31/2018	10	6	-	-
Oil spill leaking into Gulf of Mexico for 14 years creates enormous natural disaster On Sept. 15, 2004, Hurricane Ivan, traveling through the Gulf of Mexico, toppled a Taylor Energy Company oil platform into the water. As columnist Fred Grimm notes in a piece in the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the results of the collapse included “nine...	Walter Einenkel	10/31/2018	5	30	-	-
Interior Secretary dedicates Civil War monument by comparing Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, took time away from being investigated for corruption to help dedicate Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, as the Bluegrass State’s first national monument. Camp Nelson was a Union training and...	Walter Einenkel	10/31/2018	77	98	-	-
Report: Justice Department investigating Ryan Zinke because his agency asked it to When Donald Trump’s transition team came to him with a list of possible cabinet members and department heads, he clearly asked them one question: Can they be as corrupt as me? Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, like everybody else that has come and...	Walter Einenkel	10/30/2018	20	113	-	-
Kansas failed mosque bomber’s lawyers ask for leniency, cite Trump's rhetoric and provocation Two years ago, three white Christian domestic terrorists were arrested for planning a bombing attack on a Kansas mosque and apartment complex, targeting a Somali refugee community there. Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Stein were all members of...	Walter Einenkel	10/30/2018	89	118	-	-
The world's wildlife population has declined 60 percent since 1970, new report finds The Living Planet Report 2018, released on Monday by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), reports that since 1970, the earth has seen its wildlife populations decline, on average, by 60 percent. This includes mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians....	Walter Einenkel	10/30/2018	5	20	-	-
Yet another big company drops financial support for racist Iowa Republican congressman Yesterday we had the heartwarming story about big tech company Intel deciding to finally pull its financial support from Rep. Steve King because of his white supremacist associations. And while it sadly reminded us all that big corporations such as...	Walter Einenkel	10/30/2018	12	38	-	-
Fox News ‘expert’ says people in immigration caravan have leprosy and will infect Americans What’s more lucrative than being an ICE agent, separating families like the Stasi in East Germany circa 1968? Being a former ICE agent who gets paid to appear on Fox News as some kind of “expert.” Like most “experts” on Fox News, David Ward seems to be...	Walter Einenkel	10/29/2018	138	69	-	-
White lady loses job after video of her harassing her black neighbor goes viral Two sisters in Charlotte, North Carolina, uploaded a video of them being harassed by a white lady in the parking lot in front of one of their apartments as they waited for AAA to jump-start their car. Channel 9 in Charlotte explains that Leisa and Mary...	Walter Einenkel	10/29/2018	207	212	-	-
Intel says it will no longer contribute to white supremacist Republican Rep. Steve King's campaigns Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has always been a racist. His most prominent opinions on race have always been based in the political discussion of immigration, and they have always been “white nationalist.” He’s been pretty openly a white supremacist racist...	Walter Einenkel	10/29/2018	69	129	-	-
Jimmy Carter encourages Georgia’s secretary of state to do the right thing and recuse himself Stacey Abrams is trying to overcome unbelievable obstacles and become the first African-American woman elected governor in the history of our country. Every day has brought new, clearly undemocratic hurdles. The most obvious of those Jim Crow-style...	Walter Einenkel	10/29/2018	8	19	-	-
Obama pulls no punches, calling out GOP for 'blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying' Former President Barack Obama is out campaigning to get out the vote and to remind Americans how much better a politician can be than what we have right now. Speaking in front of a packed audience at North Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...	Walter Einenkel	10/26/2018	203	500	-	-
Tucker Carlson wonders aloud why the country is so divided. Twitter hands him his ass Tucker Carlson has been whining a lot lately about how tough things are now that his privileged position at the top of Fox News’ garbage-pile fire hasn’t sufficiently separated him from the plebeians. After years of fanning the flames of partisan fury...	Walter Einenkel	10/26/2018	259	361	-	-
Air Force lost jets worth around $6 billion due to Hurricane Michael and climate change denial Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida was hit hard by Hurricane Michael two weeks ago. Before the base was destroyed by the hurricane, the Air Force was able to get at least 33 planes, in a fleet of 55 F-22 stealth fighters threatened by the storm, to...	Walter Einenkel	10/26/2018	142	135	-	-
White trio with gun threatens black volunteer at Charlotte polling site It’s interesting that when white people call the police on black people and claim they feel insecure around them, it is frequently for banal things like attending their child’s soccer game; but when the police are called on white folks, it’s usually...	Walter Einenkel	10/25/2018	303	356	-	-
What does endorsing blackface get you? For Megyn Kelly, it looks like a multimillion-dollar payoff A couple of days ago, probably in something of a perverse attempt to save her show from being canned, Megyn Kelly decided to go back to her bread and butter: racism. On Tuesday, she argued that blackface Halloween outfits weren’t racist because … who...	Walter Einenkel	10/25/2018	44	31	-	-
In one of the greatest moments in debate history, Andrew Gillum brings thunder down on DeSantis Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis had their second debate tonight in the race to see who will become the next Governor of Florida. Gillum showed Floridians in their first debate, that he isn’t going to be knocked off his game by DeSantis’s continued dirty...	Walter Einenkel	10/24/2018	253	362	-	-
Trump transition team conspiracy theorist tweets out insane statement on today's domestic terrorism Frank Gaffney is known around most parts of the world for being a somewhat batshit-crazy right-wing cartoon character who believes that President Obama was trying to weaken the United States’ defenses for a takeover by Muslim powers. Seriously. Gaffney...	Walter Einenkel	10/24/2018	83	87	-	-
Fox News 'special agent' explains that explosives sent to Clinton and Obama could be from liberals How do you deal with the overwhelming evidence that the people in the most danger from the heightened vitriol in our society are, and always have been, marginalized people and their allies fighting for progressive change in our country? You obfuscate...	Walter Einenkel	10/24/2018	211	123	-	-
San Diego building, home to Union-Tribune, Kamala Harris office, evacuated due to suspicious package Early reports are coming out that the San Diego Union-Tribune building has been evacuated due to a “suspicious package.” This follows reports of similar packages, some with reported explosive devices, being received by both news and media outlets as...	Walter Einenkel	10/24/2018	117	86	-	-
Suspicious package addressed to former CIA director and vocal Trump critic John Brennan Suspicious packages with “explosive devices,” have been received in the mail, addressed to former President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and billionaire George Soros. This morning a slew of possible terrorist actions included the...	Walter Einenkel	10/24/2018	213	131	-	-
Clarence Thomas's terrible wife tweets completely fake news about immigrant caravan violence The big boogie man for right-wing groups right now is the “George Soros-funded” immigrant caravan that is bringing thousands of criminals into our country, where they will steal your teenage daughters … and your jobs! Virginia Thomas, wife of and...	Walter Einenkel	10/23/2018	294	321	-	-
Father shows compassion for son's bully and tries to end a cycle of pain in the process A father in Houston, Texas, decided to have a sit-down with a kid who was bullying his son. A boy named Tamarion was bullying Aubrey Fontenot’s son, Jordan. Fontenot, who owns a tattoo parlor in his Houston community, wanted to find out what was...	Walter Einenkel	10/23/2018	76	221	-	-
Steve Bannon’s Florida Republican fundraiser tickets went from $125 to free dollars each Remember Steve Bannon? Yeah, that crappy half-baked intellectual was one of the architects of the Donald Trump campaign that brought us … Donald Trump. Bannon was always a more unsavory character in the public’s eye because, unlike Donald Trump, Steve...	Walter Einenkel	10/23/2018	153	163	-	-
Democrat running in Arkansas is left off early-voting ballot [WITH UPDATE] Citizens are running for office in opposition to the misogynistic policies of the current administration at all levels of government. In virtually all cases, this means that Democratic cisgender women or transgender people are running against (usually...	Walter Einenkel	10/23/2018	28	50	-	-
Large global study shows that stricter gun laws mean fewer deaths from firearms, suicide included The Journal of the American Medical Association has published the results of a global study by hundreds of academics of “firearm deaths outside of war zones between 1990 and 2016” and their relationship to different degrees of gun control laws. The...	Walter Einenkel	10/22/2018	58	49	-	-
1-844-WYT-FEAR: The new hotline for white people who want to call the police on black people Golfcart Gail, Cornerstone Caroline, and BBQ Beckys have become the go-to way of discussing the stories of uncomfortable white folks who decide that the presence of a black person is freaking them out enough for them to call the authorities. The New...	Walter Einenkel	10/22/2018	19	43	-	-
What’s my name? Former CIA officer, now Democratic candidate levels Trump-backed Brat in debate Former CIA officer and now Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger has had private information leaked by unknown sources and had been subjected to other dirty tricks that most likely have a GOP origin. She’s running for Congress in Virginia’s 7th...	Walter Einenkel	10/22/2018	185	252	-	-
Here’s a list of many times the media promoted Trump as a champion of LGBT rights Arguably, the conservative movement’s biggest coup these past few decades has been to convince a considerable swath of the American public (and news journalists) that the media landscape is inherently “left-leaning.” The term “liberal media” is...	Walter Einenkel	10/22/2018	26	68	-	-
Trump administration ponders move to make it legal to discriminate against Jewish parents South Carolina is lobbying the Trump administration to allow it to use the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in order to allow “faith-based foster care agencies” the power to discriminate against Jewish parents, Muslim parents, LGBT parents. According...	Walter Einenkel	10/19/2018	179	255	-	-
This satirical Ted Cruz website is your smile of the day For most Americans, Texas Republican douchenozzle Ted Cruz represents the bare grotesqueness of ambition and narcissism. Many of us would not be surprised if Beelzebub himself arose out of a volcano to do a few campaign ads for Cruz. Like most...	Walter Einenkel	10/19/2018	9	58	-	-
Trump says he hasn't visited U.S. troops abroad because he's 'been very busy' In January of this year, a favorite Trump newspaper, USA Today, ran an op-ed titled “Mr. President, do your duty. Go see our troops.” President Trump didn’t. Mostly because Donald Trump is a coward of a man. He’s a bully, and like most bullies, he’s...	Walter Einenkel	10/18/2018	212	170	-	-
Pat Robertson: I'm sorry, Khashoggi, but we've got $100 billion worth of arms sales When cult-leader evangelical nutbag Pat Robertson isn’t trying to pray away hurricanes or for Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers to be smote, or accusing the LGBT community of secretly trying to spread HIV in America, he’s explaining the complexities of...	Walter Einenkel	10/18/2018	172	34	-	-
Trump Organization files $90,000 lawsuit against estate of man killed in Trump Tower apartment fire Trump Organization lawyer Sonja Talesnik has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Todd Brassner, the 67-year-old former art dealer who died after an electrical fire started in his Trump Tower apartment. According to the New York Post, the Trump...	Walter Einenkel	10/18/2018	89	123	-	-
Audience laughs after Beto O'Rourke explains why 'Lyin' Ted' nickname stuck to Cruz During Tuesday night’s Texas senatorial debate between incumbent swamp monster Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the subject of climate change came up. As the oil-drilling animations in the background of this televised event...	Walter Einenkel	10/18/2018	203	266	-	-
'I’m the racist and he’s the rapist!’: Gorka’s book party perfectly sums up Trump administration Nazi-sympathizing former White House aide Sebastian Gorka continues to stay in the public imagination via his new book. The launch party for the book, titled something like I Desperately Want to be Seen as an Alpha Male,* was held at … Washington,...	Walter Einenkel	10/18/2018	12	87	-	-
White lady in golf cart calls cops on black father watching his son play soccer The banality of evil is never more present than in the names given to the random white people who decide it is time to call in the authorities when a person of color makes them feel uncomfortable—by being a person of color in public. Names like...	Walter Einenkel	10/17/2018	253	256	-	-
Beto O'Rourke nails Ted Cruz and his bought and paid-for votes: 'Follow the money!' With the ballooning deficit, a clear result of the Republican Party’s single-minded fleecing of American taxpayers on behalf of its big-business overlords, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had his most deceitful work ahead of him during Tuesday night’s debate...	Walter Einenkel	10/17/2018	18	50	-	-
NY attorney general subpoenas over a dozen telecom-funded groups over fake net neutrality comments New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood has expanded the investigation into the tens of millions of fraudulent comments the FCC received during the public comment period preceding Ajit Pai’s Republican rollback of net neutrality protections....	Walter Einenkel	10/17/2018	7	35	-	-
Verizon releases ad about how they help firefighters, after admitting they throttled firefighters There are many reasons why industries like our telecommunications need to have laws in place that regulate their behavior. One of the more obvious reasons is that during an emergency, the ability for various groups of responders and government...	Walter Einenkel	10/16/2018	9	8	-	-
Tucker Carlson says he can't eat out anymore because people yell at him too often Tucker Carlson’s claim to fame in the early 2000s was that he was a relatively young guy who wore a bowtie, and looked like a miniature version of the aging white conservatives that were ruining the country. He had the younger-than-50-years-old...	Walter Einenkel	10/16/2018	209	112	-	-
DonaldDaters, the dating app for Trump supporters, leaks all users' private information on first day The trials and tribulations of being a Trump supporter looking for love, has been covered. Entrepreneurs everywhere have seen these lovelorn MAGA hat wearing romantics, and said to themselves: these guys are such rubes, I could make some of that...	Walter Einenkel	10/16/2018	291	326	-	-
Desperate Republican prints out fake lawn signs labeling Democratic opponent a ‘socialist’ Pittsburgh’s 38th state Senate District race has been heating up as Democrat Lindsey Williams has maintained a healthy-enough lead over her Republican opponent Jeremy Shaffer. Williams is a labor organize who came to prominence after she sued and won a...	Walter Einenkel	10/15/2018	19	29	-	-
Power shut down to almost 60,000 California residents to lessen chance of wildfires Since Sunday, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been temporarily shutting down the power grid for tens of thousands of Northern California customers, in the face of forecasts including “low humidity and gusty winds of up to 60 MPH.” These...	Walter Einenkel	10/15/2018	70	27	-	-
Sen. Warren trolls Trump on 'promise' to give $1 million to charity: 'Tick tock, Donald' The news around the interwebs today is about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s DNA testing release, which shows she has American Indian heritage in her family. This, of course, is in response to Donald Trump’s taunting of Warren, calling her Pocahontas and...	Walter Einenkel	10/15/2018	100	104	-	-
Republican ‘civility’ in action: ‘I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes’ If you haven’t been following the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race this election cycle, you may have missed former State Senator Scott Wagner. Wagner is the best the Grand Old Party has to offer. You might remember him as the Republican who kicked off...	Walter Einenkel	10/12/2018	119	115	-	-
Caught in a web of lies, Trump's commerce secretary says he wasn't lying when he lied In March, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was asked by New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng whether or not anyone from the White House had discussed the addition of a racist citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census form. At the time, in front of...	Walter Einenkel	10/12/2018	78	196	-	-
Connecticut Republican pulls out of election after being condemned for Facebook posts A Republican candidate for Connecticut’s General Assembly has pulled out of his race after being condemned by virtually everyone in Connecticut. Steven Baleshiski was challenging Democratic Rep. Joe Aresimowicz for his state House seat when the...	Walter Einenkel	10/12/2018	362	352	-	-
Trump accuses Hillary of Russian conspiracy, but it's her response that goes viral We can all agree that Donald Trump has one talent: the ability to expose how truly deep the abyss of craven lunacy is. Whether he’s gaslighting the world about how big his hands are, or how smart he is, or how not a puppet he is, there is no depth...	Walter Einenkel	10/11/2018	543	674	-	-
Patti LuPone holds nothing back when it comes to Trump, Republicans, and the Christian Right A new interview with Broadway legend Patti LuPone was published in the Guardian Thursday. It’s an entertaining piece, covering the very colorful life and experiences of the singer and actor as she rehearses in London for a new production of Stephen...	Walter Einenkel	10/11/2018	85	233	-	-
Amid lawsuits, Wilbur Ross suddenly recalls who helped push racist changes to U.S. census forms Since March, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has been under pressure to explain the grotesquely racist question concerning citizenship that was set to appear on forms to be used in the upcoming 2020 U.S. census. Lawsuits have been filed arguing that...	Walter Einenkel	10/11/2018	44	185	-	-
Ford plans 12% workforce reduction, says loss of $1 billion to Trump tariffs not helping Trump’s trade-war tariffs seem to be hurting everybody except Trump and the countries he’s trying to bully. Most business leaders know that the United States will continue to feel the true brunt of these tariffs, in the coming months and...	Walter Einenkel	10/11/2018	35	57	-	-

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